Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy

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Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy

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Jan 14, 2014

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Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about symmetry and how the rules of symmetry influences our lives and the choices we make.

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Jan 14, 2014

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A series of talks and lectures from Oxford Mathematicians exploring the power and beauty of their subject. These talks would appeal to anyone interested in mathematics and its ever-growing range of applications from medicine to economics and beyond.

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The Secret Mathematicians: the connections between maths and the arts - Marcus du Sautoy: Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about the connections beween art and mathematics by The Secrets of Mathematics
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The Irrational, the chaotic and incomplete: the mathematical limits of knowledge - Marcus du Sautoy: Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about how much we can understand of the world through maths by The Secrets of Mathematics
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The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - Ian Stewart: Puzzling things happen in human perception when ambiguous or incomplete information is presented to the eyes. by The Secrets of Mathematics
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Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy

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